I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bucharest and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Health at Duke Kunshan University. My education includes a B.A. from the University of Arizona (2009, magna cum laude), an M.A. from the University of Bucharest (2011), and a Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong (2016). I have been a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy since 2020.

My research in sociology and global health examines patient social categorization, triage decision-making, informal payments in medical settings, and access to health care among vulnerable populations in Romania, Cambodia, and China. My work has been published in Social Science & Medicine, Sociology of Health & Illness, Time & Society, and BMC Public Health.

The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania, my first book, was published in 2023 (Lexington Books).

Before joining the University of Bucharest, I was Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Global Health Research Center, Duke Kunshan University (2022-2025) and Lecturer in the Department of Health and Environmental Sciences at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (2017- 2022).